2" AS leveling kit installed

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Dec 10, 2010 | 07:25 AM

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rockstate45

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If you want a good offroad tire, it will be loud. Terra Grapplers and the like are nothing more than dressed up street tires.

Brandon

Yeah, lucky for me I don't need something that everybody can hear from 2 miles away haha.

I had a set of KOs and they weren't the best in the mud but did alright IMO. I haven't had the Nittos out in anything yet, except once but street tires could have done that.

We'll see.

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Dec 10, 2010 | 12:48 PM

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yep. they are loud. but i love the sound. im so used to it that it doesnt bother me. i had them on my old truck and have had buddies with boggers and everything else so its really not bad

Dec 12, 2010 | 11:51 AM

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Maybe its an age thing. When I was younger I always had Swampers or Ground Hawgs on my trucks. Now i'm in my 40's and I am happy with the not-very-noisy Terra grapplers

Dec 12, 2010 | 11:56 AM

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I don't mind the noise level of the Terras, but I think they're louder than the KOs and on a 13 hr road trip, you do have to turn the radio up halfway (Crappy Toyota radio) to drown 'em out.

Nothing would bother me for a 3 hour trip, but 13 is a bit excessive.

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Dec 14, 2010 | 09:23 AM

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we just took an 11 hour trip to branson, mo last month and got to listen to it the whole way. doesnt bother me and my wife, we are just that used to it. and the tires with the exhaust note puts the kids to sleep in the back seat.

Dec 14, 2010 | 05:48 PM

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Not too shabby at all. I will admit, I do kind of enjoy the hum of the tires. I got intimate with them the other day for almost 14 hours and the hum is really only there when I let off the gas and coast without the radio on. The exhaust and radio do a pretty good job of cutting it out.

Now, question for you. I've had these tires for almost 3000 highway miles, and maybe 1000 in the city. I've already burned between 1-2/32nds on my tread. I went from 17 to 15-16 on all four parts I measured on the tire.

I have 4k miles on these tires... am I gonna see 50K+ out of these tires? Is that wear pretty fast or slow?

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Dec 15, 2010 | 11:12 AM

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u should see somewhere between 40 and 50k miles out of them, just make sure your front end in aligned, good ball joints, etc. and just rotate them every 3-5k. you should be good

Dec 16, 2010 | 12:02 AM

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u should see somewhere between 40 and 50k miles out of them, just make sure your front end in aligned, good ball joints, etc. and just rotate them every 3-5k. you should be good

Damn, well my front shocks are about 10K miles old and everything else should be fine up front.

Thanks for the input, I'll have to post back on the results.

So far so good. Beached her on a snow bank the other day. Next time I'll do it, snag a pic, adn post it up here.

-rockstate

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Dec 16, 2010 | 04:50 PM

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I'd enjoy seeing a stuck Tundra. Did your Ford pull it out?

Dec 16, 2010 | 06:01 PM

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Instead of giving you the layout, we've had 4 Expeditions, 2 Sport Tracs. Currenly one Sport Trac is in the fleet and it'd be the only one getting stuck. (bald tires).

My Tundra may suck (and I'm having the front diff looked at soon) but it surely wouldn't get stuck haha.

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Dec 18, 2010 | 01:45 PM

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shocks????

did anyone need to replace shocks/ struts when doing the leveling kit? I plan on doing a 2.5 front and 1.5 add a leaf rear to my 2010. thanks.

Dec 19, 2010 | 12:43 PM

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did anyone need to replace shocks/ struts when doing the leveling kit? I plan on doing a 2.5 front and 1.5 add a leaf rear to my 2010. thanks.

You won't need to replace anything if you do a simple spacer kit.

If you want to replace the shocks/struts you can with some longer ones and call it a day. That's how I achieved lift on my truck. Coils that gave me 2.5" lift as well as a stiffer coil rate - 680 lbs vs 740 lbs.

-rockstate